Traysar Industries (Traysar), an American-Israeli defense technology company, has launched Terminus, a truck-mounted boring platform designed to place critical infrastructure underground, and announced at the Sovereign AI Summit at Impact 250 in Washington, D.C. a partnership with AI infrastructure company Armada to develop underground systems for defense and other mission-critical uses.
According to a press release, the companies plan to combine Traysar’s underground systems with Armada’s modular data centers and Sovereign AI Grid. They said the technology could support secure AI processing, command and control, communications and other workloads in environments where conventional facilities are vulnerable or difficult to deploy.
“The next generation of critical infrastructure cannot remain exposed. Terminus transforms the Earth’s crust into a protective layer for the systems America depends on most,” said Yadin Soffer, Co-founder and CEO of Traysar. “The cloud changed where the world stores information. Edge computing changed where the world processes it. Terminus deepens the territory where critical compute can survive. The future of infrastructure is not only distributed, it is underground.”
Dan Wright, Co-founder and CEO, Armada, said, “The future of AI infrastructure is distributed, sovereign, and resilient. The Sovereign AI Grid is built so that no critical workload depends on a single site. Terminus adds a new dimension. Together we can put a fully sovereign, air-gapped AI node beneath the surface, close to the mission it supports, and keep it running when everything above ground cannot.”
Traysar is developing Terminus as a way to position distributed infrastructure below ground and closer to where it is needed. The persistent surveillance, autonomous weapons, precision strikes and electronic warfare have increased the risks facing surface-based data centers and communications infrastructure.
Armada provides modular data centers that are manufactured off-site and deployed where power is available. Its Armada Platform can operate on-site without an external cloud connection and can be configured for fully air-gapped operations. The company’s Sovereign AI Grid connects separate deployments into a distributed network.
Armada’s infrastructure has been used in communications-constrained environments, including a U.S. Navy deployment during UNITAS, a multinational maritime exercise. The company also said one of its Galleon systems was deployed to a military organization and brought online within six days following attacks on traditional data centers in the Middle East. According to Armada, the deployment supported real-time data fusion, satellite imagery analysis and sensor processing.
Traysar describes its work as “Subterra Survivability,” a focus on using underground infrastructure to protect assets and maintain operations during attacks. The company also develops autonomous systems for underground penetration, strike, maneuver, monitoring and intelligence.
The companies identified several potential uses for the combined technology, including underground AI infrastructure, command and communications systems, protected data processing, distributed sovereign AI networks and continuity infrastructure for government and defense operations. Traysar and Armada’s partnership is intended to support the deployment of AI infrastructure in locations where conventional facilities may be exposed to attack or disruption.